The government has appointed new secretaries to the Ministry of Ports and Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Women and Child Affairs.

W.W.S. Mangala, a Special Grade Officer of the Sri Lanka Planning Service, has been appointed as the Secretary to the Ministry of Ports and Civil Aviation. 

Mangala previously served as the Director General of Planning (Disaster Management) at the Ministry of Defence.

Meanwhile, W.M.D.T. Wickramasinghe, a Special Grade Officer of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service, has been appointed as the Secretary to the Ministry of Women and Child Affairs.

Wickramasinghe previously served as the Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Plantation and Community Infrastructure.

Their letters of appointment were handed over to the newly appointed Secretaries by the Secretary to the President, Nandika Sanath Kumanayake, at the Presidential Secretariat today (15). (Newswire)

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President Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed ten Ministry Secretaries and two Chief Secretaries today (Dec 22).

According to the government, the appointments will be effective from 01st January 2024.

The newly appointed officials are as follows:

• Ms. Wasantha Perera – Secretary to the Ministry of Education

• Mr. M.N. Ranasinghe – Secretary, Ministry of Justice, Prisons & Constitutional Reforms

• Mr. Gunadasa Samarasinghe – Secretary, Ministry of Wildlife & Forest Resources Conservation

• Mr. A.C. Mohammad Nafeel – Secretary, Ministry of Water Supply & Estate Infrastructure

• Mr. W.P.P. Yasaratne – Secretary, Ministry of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils & Local Government

• Mr. Saman Darshana Pandikorala – Secretary, Ministry of Irrigation

• Mr. B.K.P. Chandrakeerthi – Secretary to the Ministry of Environment

• Dr. Sulaksha Jayawardena – Secretary, Ministry of Power and Energy,

• Eng. Mr. Ranjith Rubasinghe – Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Highways

• Dr. Dharmasri Kumaratunga – Secretary, Ministry of Technology

• Mr. R.M.W.S. Samaradiwakara as the Chief Secretary of the North Central Province

• Miss. S.L.D.K. Wijayasinghe as the Chief Secretary of the Western Province (NewsWire)

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